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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Bilestoad
- Message-ID: <fxgmd3g.payner@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:16:52 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.215710.12912@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu> <6vfmmzb.payner@netcom.com> <HHUANG.92Jul23010243@husc10.harvard.edu>
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- In article <HHUANG.92Jul23010243@husc10.harvard.edu> hhuang@husc10.harvard.edu (Howard Huang) writes:
- >payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >
- > >>And why is your 20,000 copy -guess- any better than the hundred
- > >>billion dollar losses claimed by the software industry?
- > >>... I do not trust their numbers.
- > >>Now if you actually went out and counted them...
- >
- >payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) also writes:
- >
- > The
- > lost profits argument -assumes- that everyone who pirates a program could
- > afford to buy is (no lost profits otherwise). I suspect that most of the
- > time, this is not the case.
- >
- > And I suspect that the claimed lost profits
- > exceed the expendable cash of the American public by an order of magnitude.
- >
- >Before saying Eric Johnson's "guesses" are unfounded, have you counted
- >the numbers to support your "suspicions"?
-
- That is the essence of my point, the numbers are -not- available. So
- what is the value of making huge estimates that cannot be proved or
- disproved?
-
- And I do not have to have good numbers to question others numbers. How many
- angles can dance on the head of as pin? I don't know, but if you were to
- say 1,000,000, then I would question that. Where did this come from, how
- do you know?
-
- > ____________________________________________________________________________
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- >| Howard C. Huang Internet: hhuang@husc.harvard.edu |
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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